Orange

[Old Hunter]

Bow hunters can hunt rifle seasons too. See how that works?

How about two weeks for ML, and two weeks for bow hunters. Unless you want to take those Dec hunts?

[Edelweiss]

The stats you'll never see is how many who might have got shot if they weren't wearing orange. We just don't know that.

Seriously, what's the big deal in wearing orange? I wear a hat anyway. What difference does it make if it's orange, or something else. I can't see it when i'm wearing it. The same with the vest. To me it gives me a couple of extra pockets. Not a big deal to wear. I don't get some of you guys?

I am guessing that Orange helped you get to be an old hunter?

[Vanish]

I think someone missed my point. I grew up hunting in NY, no orange required and one of the lowest injury states out there. I wear orange now because it is required by the state, not because I love hunter orange.

If you reread my post, I point out the stupid part of having to wear orange ... that anyone out there not hunting can dress up like a deer and be perfectly legal.

[Old Hunter]

I think someone missed my point. I grew up hunting in NY, no orange required and one of the lowest injury states out there. I wear orange now because it is required by the state, not because I love hunter orange.

If you reread my post, I point out the stupid part of having to wear orange ... that anyone out there not hunting can dress up like a deer and be perfectly legal.

How do you make laws for everybody out there? Put a sign on every tree?

[sjsmallfield]

How do you make laws for everybody out there? Put a sign on every tree?

It seems to me that the Forest Service has plenty of other laws. (camp fires, bear boxes, no ohv's, etc.) It stands to reason that they could add one more to make hikers and backpackers wear orange during the fall if they wanted to.

[Old Hunter]

I don't see any of those signs where I hunt, but I don't hunt near camping areas and public hiking trails. Every now and then I see a sign saying i'm entering NFS land. That's about it.

Smart hikers won't be out there during hunting seasons. Stupid hikers would ignore the signs.

Just saying.

[sjsmallfield]

I'm just saying a law is a law. Some people follow them and some don't. I just happen to be one that does. I could care less about who wears orange and who chooses not to. I am one of the guys like you that wears it regardless if it is required or not. To each their own. Smart hikers?

[ivorytip]

just curious, im gonna do a little research online and see if accidental shootings involved people that were actualy wearing orange. im guessing prob. people hear movement in the brush and shoot. we have all noticed movement on the mountain before and raised our rifle to check through the scope, we all have. you shouldnt have a bullet chambered anyway. and nobody can mestake a human for any wild animal. the one thing i like about guys in orange is they are easy to pick out off a mountain and i know not to go that way.

[Old Hunter]

just curious, im gonna do a little research online and see if accidental shootings involved people that were actualy wearing orange. im guessing prob. people hear movement in the brush and shoot. we have all noticed movement on the mountain before and raised our rifle to check through the scope, we all have. you shouldnt have a bullet chambered anyway. and nobody can mestake a human for any wild animal. the one thing i like about guys in orange is they are easy to pick out off a mountain and i know not to go that way.

That's one of the perks of not using a scope. I don't need to raise the gun to see better.

[Fink]

That's one of the perks of not using a scope. I don't need to raise the gun to see better.

It's also one of the perks of owning a pair of binoculars.